All maintenance management processes you implement in your plant come down to a change at the frontline (hourly and first line of management) at some point. Nothing improves until your maintenance management improvement projects hit the frontline. Maintenance Management for Supervisors is a vital part of your plant reliability. For example, if you are focusing […]
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Digital cameras, with the addition of simple notes, are a very powerful planning tool and can save hours of work. Here are a couple of examples: Here the message to the tradesperson is clear, and it took just seconds. The text and arrows are added using the “Drawing” tool bar, in MS Word. In the
This article provides guidelines on the selection and structure of the codes and categories that CMMS Software work order systems use to filter and sort backlogs of work. When many organizations first introduced a computer software (CMMS) to manage maintenance they saw an opportunity to use the computer’s ability to sort and filter work in
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Improving an industrial preventive maintenance process can be a daunting task. Existing PM processes have often developed continuously over many years. The current preventive maintenance process may therefore be hard to organize and analyze. Where does one start to improving an existing PM process? The PM tasks are often divided by department in any given
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There is a saying: “What you can’t measure, you can’t improve”. The saying are not necessarily always true, but it is interesting, because I think a derivative of the saying is true: “What you measure, is usually what you get.” Reducing Inventory Value It is common for plants to have a lot of focus on
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Have you ever been in a situation where someone says: “we don’t have time to inspect this equipment; there are just not enough people in our plant maintenance department”, or perhaps: “Why would we start inspecting the equipment now, it’s never been done before.” You feel in your gut that the equipment should be inspected,
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We often get the following two questions: 1. With what condition monitoring technique are failures usually found?2. What is the cost saving associated with finding failures? The answer depends on the current equipment condition, the amount of equipment, the type of equipment, and what the consequences of failures are for a plant. There isn’t a
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When it comes to benchmarking, a popular measurement is maintenance cost (MC) as a percent of Estimated Replacement Value (ERV). The data from our SIMATM database shows that the MC/ERV for process industry is: Maintenance Cost as a Percent of Estimated Replacement Value (ERV) Low High Total 1.5 % 6.3 % Labor 0.6 % 2.4
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